Messages in this thread | | | From | "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:19:48 +0530 |
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:06:04 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote: > [[ Following this approach I would like to avoid any filehandle-specific > syscalls altogether. > Just use a *at syscall with AT_FILE_HANDLE for filehandle lookup, and use > getxattr('system:linux.file_handle') to get the filehandle for a given path. > > Ofcourse we would need to at *at versions of the *xattr syscalls, but that is > probably a good idea anyway. > ]]
sys_setxattrat would take 7 arguments.
-aneesh
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